From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2010-04-27T00:25:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby networking: Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2) on Ubuntu 9.1

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Bill McLean wrote:

>
> When using the Ruby networking library in two sample programs below I get
> the connect refused exception.  To validate the code, I am running both the
> client and server code in separate terminal windows.  The ip address given
> is the address that has been assigned to the eth0 device.
>
> The client fails to connect to the server. However if I change the ip
> address to localhost or 127.0.0.1 then the connection is made.
>
> It may not have anything to do with ruby, but with the configuration of my
> linux machine.

Check your firewall settings, it may be blocked by iptables.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.